Photo: The 500th Fuller Center Global Builders team is working this week in La Florida, Peru. Global Builders program hits 500-trip milestone Since 2008, The Fuller Center for Housing’s Global Builders program has been supporting international building partners by sending volunteer teams to help build homes. These teams bring willing hands and funds that help […]
Dalton, Ohio’s Ryan Pierce recently joined a Fuller Center Global Builders trip to Peru, where he helped volunteers build with a family in the thriving community of La Florida. It was an experience that changed his life, and he has used his talents to produce a video encouraging others to give of themselves and have […]
The obituary for Ramsay Walker with many details about his family and his remarkable talents and life of service is now available at this link. Ramsay Walker, almost always in partnership with his wife Bootsaba, has been one of the affordable housing movement’s most prolific volunteers — especially on the global scene as the Walkers […]
(This is part of The Fuller Center’s new “Faith in Action” series. If you have a story to share for the series, please let us know at this link.) Was it a case of providential confluence, divine intervention or pure coincidence? Leo Manuelian doesn’t know the answer to the question, but he is grateful for […]
Connor Ciment, Fuller Center Bike Adventure trip leader, has had a roller-coaster of a last two years. In fact, little in his life has remained the same, other than a love for his bicycle. After graduating college in May of 2015, Ciment joined the Fuller Center Bike Adventure. “I loved riding my bike, and I was […]
Roughly two weeks ago, 12 Americans, a Canadian, and a Brit arrived in a new country. They represented different religions, world views, and occupations. With ages spanning a range of 60 years, they would converge on a little-known village in Nicaragua called Las Peñitas. Just over a week later, both the village and the 14 […]
When Carey and Rick White, a father-son duo from Texas, embarked on their recent trip to Armenia, they did not expect anything out of the ordinary from their regular service trips. Accompanied by friend Stewart Essey, the trio travelled full of excitement and wonder of visiting the world’s first Christian nation. Carey, having travelled to Guatemala, […]
For 17-year-old Sam Girian of Manchester, Mass., the 2016 Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Vanadzor, Armenia, wasn’t just another service trip. It was an opportunity to learn about himself and the world around him. The high school junior isn’t short on life experience: He lives away from his family at a rigorous college preparatory boarding […]
